A joint media project of the global news agency Inter Press Service (IPS) and the lay Buddhist network Soka Gakkai International (SGI) aimed to promote a vision of global citizenship which has the potentiality to confront the global challenges calling for global solutions, by providing in-depth news and analyses from around the world.

... to escape punishment by the police or courts, but many also forced to pay to get access to the basic services that they desperately need.” [P29] ARABIC | GERMAN | HINDI | JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF | NORWEGIAN ...

... 27, has been touted as the biggest single contribution to humanity since the invention of sliced bread. [P18] ARABIC | BHASA INDONESIA | GERMAN | ITALIAN | JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF | NORWEGIAN | PORTUGUESE ...

... Peter deSouza, professor at the India-based Centre for the Study of Developing Societies. [P] ARABIC | CHINESE TEXT VERSION PDF | JAPANESE TEXT VERSION PDF | NORWEGIAN
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... known as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the need for education for global citizenship is becoming increasingly important. [P] ARABIC TEXT VERSION PDF | GERMAN | HINDI | JAPANESE TEXT VERSION ...

Why choose Fostering for Global Citizenship

This website is part of a joint media project of the global news agency Inter Press Service (IPS) and the lay Buddhist network Soka Gakkai International (SGI) aimed to promote a vision of global citizenship to confront the global challenges calling for global solutions, by providing in-depth news and analyses from around the world. >>>read more>>>

CAIRO (IDN) - One does need to think back half a century ago, to remember how much harmony and peaceful coexistence reigned in Arab countries between Muslims, Christians and Jewish. Nor does one need to recall how hundreds of Muslims gathered to protect Christians praying in their churches in Egypt during and after the 2011 popular upraising. Or how organised groups of Copts acted as a human shield to save Muslims praying in Cairo's Tahrir Square from extremists' attacks during the successive waves of popular protests.[P] PERSIAN (FARSI) | JAPANESE TEXT VERSIONPDF

UNITED NATIONS (IPS) - The future of religion in U.S. politics lies not with conservatives but rather with religious progressives, social scientists here are suggesting, with a faith-based movement potentially able to provide momentum to a new movement for social justice.

According to a new report from the Brookings Institute, a think tank here, the current religious social justice movement can be compared to the period of civil rights activism in the mid-20th century. [P] JAPANESE TEXT VERSIONPDF | SPANISH